About

Kate McIntyre is an assistant professor of creative writing at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Her story collection, Mad Prairie, won the Flannery O’Connor Award, selected by Roxane Gay, and is available from the University of Georgia Press. The collection was selected for the long list for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for best debut and was named a Kansas Notable Book. Her fiction and essays have appeared in journals including Electric Literature, Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, the Cincinnati Review, and Copper Nickel, and she is a recipient of residencies at Playa, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Hewnoaks, and the Volland Foundation. She has a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2014 and Special Mentions in the 2016 and 2020 Pushcart Prize anthologies.

She co-edits the award-winning flash speculative journal hex literary with Joe Aguilar and Danny Miller.